Wangari Maathai
receives
Honorary
Doctoral Degree from GSPIA
Wangari
Maathai, a 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and graduate
of the University of Pittsburgh, returned to Pitt
on Thursday, October 26, 2006 and delivered an inspirational
message to a packed house in the Connolly Ballroom
at Alumni Hall. Dr. Maathai spoke about her 30-year
effort to reforest her native Kenya by planting 30
million trees and the seeds of change for the future
of women.
Her lifetime
of triumphant accomplishments on the international
stage has made Dr. Maathai one of the most effective
and powerful women leaders in the world. To recognize
her outstanding achievements, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg
conferred upon her an honorary doctoral degree in
public service from the Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs.
Dr. Maathai's
autobiography, Unbowed (Random House, 2006),
offers an inspiriting message of hope and prosperity
through self-sufficiency.
Dr. Maathai
is the founder of The Greenbelt Movement, a broad-based,
grassroots organization whose mission focuses on mobilizing
communites for self-determination, justice, equity,
poverty reduction, and environmental conservation.
Read more about Dr. Maathai at GreenbeltMovement.org.
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